Dr. Abdulmula Abdumagid Alhadi Hamza

Dr. Abdulmaula Hamza have obtained a bachelor’s degree in zoology from the Faculty of Science, University of Tripoli in 1994, and joined the Department of Nature Conservation at the Environment General Authority (currently the Ministry of Environment) in 1997. He joined the master’s program in Zoology during his work and obtained a Master's degree in Zoology in 2004, with a thesis on the Ecology of Freshwater Gastropods at Taourgha Spring and its channels. He listed the gastropod species and the effect of water chemical and physical properties on those species. In the same year, he joined the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, with a grant from the British Council in Tripoli, and completed a Master of Research degree in biodiversity and nature conservation, and his study there included two chapters, the first being a laboratory on the behaviour of fish immobility in Guppies Poecilia reticulata after exposure to predatory birds, and a field study on Effect of the quality and composition of the bottom on the type and size class of fish in the Wharf River in Britain. After his return to Libya in late 2004, he contributed to launching several national programs related to surveys of migratory waterfowl, seaweeds and the distribution of Mediterranean seals on the Libyan coasts. He also established the Libyan Program for the Protection of Sea Turtles https://www.facebook.com/LibSTP/ , and published many scientific articles and technical reports. In 2008, he received a national scholarship to study a doctorate at the University of Hull, The UK, his PhD thesis entitled (Breeding ecology, migration and population genetics of lesser crested terns Thalasseus bengalensis emigratus). It included a detailed study of the breeding environment, migratory behaviour and community genetics of small crested terns that nest in specific areas of the Libyan coast, and are not found on any other Mediterranean coast. In the year 2014, Dr. Hamza joined the Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences at the University of Terengganu, Malaysia, to work as an assistant professor at the university, where he teaches many courses such as marine vertebrates, marine ecology, marine biodiversity, global environmental issues and others, during which he supervised 30 undergraduate students and contributed to the supervision The academic has several postgraduate students in master's and doctorate degrees. In 2021, he returned to his previous work at the Ministry of Environment until he moved to work in the Biology Department at the University of Tripoli, as a an assistant professor of comparative anatomy of vertebrates and vertebrates biology.